
The Optimist
- Drama
Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
- Directed by
- Finn Taylor
- Written by
- Finn Taylor
Cast
Stephen Lang
Elsie Fisher- Luke David Blumm
- Robin Weigert
- Leah Pipes
- Ben Geurens
- Ursula Parker
- Slavko Sobin
Stella Stocker- Oskar Hes
- Stephanie Heiner
- Josh Schell